Slowing the red
Scattered patches of red trees are becoming a more familiar sight in ponderosa pine along Colorado’s Front Range. Scientists, land managers and partners are working to reduce beetle impacts while building more resilient forests.“The amount of mortality we’re seeing over the last four years has steadily increased,” said Marianne Davenport, forest entomologist with the Forest Service Forest Health…
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Lodgepole Mountain Pine Beetle Impact Model
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Lodgepole Mountain Pine Beetle Impact Model is no longer supported in FVS, but remains available for research purposes only.
The Lodgepole Mountain Pine Beetle Impact Model simulates Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopk.Insect DescriptionMountain Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (PDF, 7.6 MB)Model…
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Racing the clock to stem the spread of the mountain pine beetle
In the summer of 2019, Forest Service entomologist Amy Lockner made her way along the Taylor Canyon Road toward Gunnison, Colorado, a small mountain town situated in a valley often referred to as the “Gateway to the Rockies.”As she drove down the winding canyon road flanked by pine trees, her gaze caught a subtle inconsistency in the forest canopy…